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Maybe we are comparing apples and oranges. The times I quote are from hitting the Restart button until the desktop in functional.
In Event viewer that would be event 100 + event 200 + POST time. Of course POST time isn't in the event viewer.

I have now installed an OCZ Vector on my Inspiron 530. The Vector is one of the fastest SSDs available. But my Inspiron has no 6Gb port, so I have it on a 3Gb port. In addition the Inspiron has only 4GB of RAM and a Q6600 (2.4GHz quad) CPU. Event 100 is 25 seconds.

The 'slower' M4 is on my XPS 8300 with an i7 and 8GB of RAM plus a 6Gb port. So event 100 shows 17 seconds.

Bottom line: Not only the speed of the SSD is responsible for the boot time but also the overall PC configuration.

I have just done a fresh install of w7 on the old M4 with only the basic board drivers and no programs. The entire OS is on the SSD. I assume the crazy ASUS BIOS is the bottle neck, it takes 21-22 seconds to POST. That's from the time the Shutting Down screen disappears until the Starting Windows appears. Here' the result of this install's reboot time.

I just did upgrade my firmware, once I was able to, had to remove the AMD SATA controller driver temporarily, to push the new firmware and then put it back afterwards. Both the AMD SATA controller driver and firmware are the latest.

The Adata SX900 uses a Sandforce controller, which deals with compressible data on the fly, which is what contributes to the faster write speeds. AS SSD tests with incompressible data which doesn't allow drives with Sandforce controllers to reach those high write speeds. To be honest, Sequential Read/Write speeds mean dick to 99.9% of users. The real world performance numbers are: 4K and Acc. time and they are exponentially faster than a mechanical hard drive.

I have just done a fresh install of w7 on the old M4 with only the basic board drivers and no programs. The entire OS is on the SSD. I assume the crazy ASUS BIOS is the bottle neck, it takes 21-22 seconds to POST. That's from the time the Shutting Down screen disappears until the Starting Windows appears. Here' the result of this install's reboot time.Attachment 274348

Yep Gary that is just about what my machine does at the moment the Sandy bridge boots faster than Ivy and both have the same 830 drive but the Sandy is a Gigabyte board withthe non EUFI BiOS.

Well, it's been a little over a year since I built this system and the Samsung 830 SSD is running as good today as the day I installed it. I've not been easy on it by any means, and it just asks for more!

Here are the numbers:

@ Faladu: If you want to see what your numbers are on compressible data, get Crystal Disk Mark, Click on File > Test Data > All 0x00 (0 Fill), then run a test. That will allow CDM to test the SSD and let it take advantage of it's compression algorithm.

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Show us your hard drive performanceI thought it would be interesting to compare everyones hard drive performances with screenshots from HD Tune utility (get from HD Tune). Maybe after some time we could produce a results table.
So heres mine:
Im going to show you the single WD Raptor X results first for interest:
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Show us your SSD performanceI'm interested to see what others are getting out of their SSD or SSDs in RAID. It's cool to look through the "Show us your hard drive performance" thread but here's a place for just SSD performance. I have a 128GB Patriot Torqx. (F/W v1881) Please post your benchmarks.:)
Edit: I now have...

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Show us your Mechanical HDD performance...Since the SSD boys and girls have a "Show us your SSD Performance" thread, I thought I'd start one for us mechanical HDD owners.
Simply DL, install, and run HD Tune and post screenshots of results here in this thread. Please also tell us the Make and Model of your HDD(s) and any other specs you...

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show hidden folders show file extensions thru registryI am trying to setup a default user or machine setup for how win7 handles folder view options. I want show hidden folders to be set to on for all users and the hide extensions for know file types to be unchecked or turned off ffor all users (so extensions show)
I have located them in the registry...